McClintock's challenge in the 21st century

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 20200-20203

  Fedoroff, Nina V ^a,b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, PLANT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84870861242     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215482109     Document Type: Review

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